Kick-off session Boook club
Happy Git and Hithub for the useR
Boook club R-Ladies Bergen, R-Ladies Den Bosch, R-Ladies Amsterdam
Program for today
- Intro R-Ladies
- Intro book club
- Intro speaker: Jenny Bryan
- Talk with Jenny
- If time left: Presentation of Chapter 2 (Installation) & Chapter 3(Connect Git, GitHub, RStudio)
R-Ladies
- Worldwide organization promoting gender diversity in R community since 2012
- by encouraging, inspiring, and empowering people of genders currently under-represented
- by building collaborative global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers to facilitate individual and collective progress worldwide
R-Ladies Chapters
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- 225 chapters
- 65 countries
- This will be at least the 3945th event
Some house rules
- R-Ladies is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone
- We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form
- See the code of conduct
Welcome to the boook club!
What to expect from this boook club
- Presentation of a “big” book chapter: Summary, demonstration
- Open discussion for questions and thoughts
- Optional pre-reading of chapters
- Could be a good idea though!
- Shared doc for notes and questions
- Arrangements organized and shared via Meetup - BECOME A MEMBER OF YOUR CHAPTER!
Are YOU the next presenter?
- We are looking for speaker to present chapters
- Not necessary to be an expert, we are learning together
- Let us know via meetup, if you are interested
Jenny Bryan
- Ph.D. and M.A. in Biostatistics
- RStudio
- Adjunct Professor University British Columbia
- Member R Foundation
- Leadership Committee rOpenSci
- Scientific Advisory Board BioConductor
And now the floor is for Jenny!
Documentation shared by Jenny
- Workshop repo What They Forgot to Teach You About R”
- workshop from posit conf 2022, which included about a half day on Git/GitHub
- look in the “materials” folder for slides, there are 2 PDFs about Git and GitHub
